Can we upload a wildcard certificate on the Aruba IAP for dot1x authentication?

Question: Can we upload a wildcard certificate on the Aruba IAP for dot1x authentication?

Product and Software: This article applies to all Aruba Instant platforms and versions.

What is a wildcard certificate?A wildcard certificate allows you to secure multiple web sites with a single SSL certificate. For example, if you want to secure http://www.abc.com/, secure.abc.com, and support.abc.com, you can use a wildcard certificate to secure all three subdomains under *.abc.com.Wildcard certificates secure your subdomains with SSL.For example, if you hosted http://www.abc.com/ (common-name used would be *.abc.com), an SSL wildcard certificate would allow you to secure unlimited first-level subdomains like these:http://www.abc.com/admin.abc.comsales.abc.comyou-name-it.abc.comWildcard certificates do have limits, and this is true for all Certificate Authorities. Wildcard certificates support only one level up in the fully qualified domain name.For example, if you create a certificate for the common name of *.test.abc.com, https://www.test.abc.com/ will work, but https://www.shop.test.abc.com/ will not work.

Yes, you can upload the wildcard certificate for IAP for dot1x authentication from Aruba Instant 6.1.3.1.This example shows a 2048-bit wildcard certificate.

You can see that the wildcard certificate was successfully uploaded to the IAP. We have also tested this certificate by creating a dot1x SSID and connecting a client to this SSID and it works.